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New York, August 31, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egypt's
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to immediately release journalist Maikel Nabil Sanad, who was tried in
military court for "insulting the military" and is now serving a three-year
sentence in prison. Sanad began a hunger strike in prison on August 22 and was
transferred to solitary confinement two days later.

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New York, October 21, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the health of imprisoned Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous. We call upon the Tunisian government to release him immediately.